Report: Haniyeh's Nephew Killed in Israeli Airstrike in Gaza

Palestinian sources said on Friday that Walid Majdi Haniyeh, a nephew of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh, died of his wounds after being injured in an Israeli Air Force strike in the Al-Nasr neighborhood in western Gaza City. Israeli media reports said Haniyeh served as a commander in Hamas’s Nukhba units and was known by the nickname "Loby."

The reports said he lost a hand and suffered bleeding to the head during the strike. They also suggested that the nickname may point to earlier activity in Libya. In 2019, a Libyan court sentenced four Hamas engineers to long prison terms for collecting weapons in the country, and they were released in December 2023 after Turkish pressure.

Ismail Haniyeh was killed in July 2024 in a room inside a secured compound in Tehran, according to foreign reports, when an explosive device planted in the room detonated. Several months earlier, three of his sons and three of his grandsons were killed in a strike at the Shati camp. According to the reports, the three sons were Hamas operatives, including one who commanded a cell in the movement’s military wing and another who was involved in holding hostages.